Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

When I was young I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.

You're beautiful, like a May fly.

Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.

False hope really makes you cynical.

They are denied access to the more advanced techniques of releasing the kundalini energy, which bring about quantum leaps in self-awareness.

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.

Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.

A fool and his words are soon parted.